The idea however, of a perfect and immortal commonwealth, will always be found as chimerical as that of a perfect and immortal man.

The style of this author wants ease and fluency; but the good matter which his work contains, makes compensation.

He died in 1677, aged sixty-six.
Harvey is entitled to the glory of having made, by reasoning alone, without any mixture of accident, a capital discovery in one of the most important branches of science.

He had also the happiness of establishing at once his theory on the most solid and convincing proofs; and posterity has added little to the arguments suggested by his industry and ingenuity.

His treatise of the circulation of the blood is further embellished by that warmth and spirit which so naturally accompany the genius of invention.